Mind Quotes

It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.
Alec Bourne
Marilyn ferguson - the greatest revolution in our generation is that...
Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up our minds to walk boldly through them.
Orison Swett Marden
Samuel taylor coleridge - no mind is thoroughly well organized that is...
Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
Abraham Lincoln
Daylight, in my mind, the night faded.
Harper Lee, To Kill A Mockingbird
The great end of education is to discipline rather than to furnish the mind to train it to the use of its own powers, rather than fill it with the accumulation of others.
Tryon Edwards
Intuition will tell the thinking mind where to look next.
Dr. Jonas Salk
A multitude of words is no proof of a prudent mind.
Thales
The pain of a disappointed wish necessarily produces less effect upon the mind if a man has not certainly promised himself success. - De Tranquillitate Animi.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Great minds have purposes, others have wishes.
Washington Irving
To the generous mind the heaviest debt is that of gratitude, when it is not in our power to repay it.
Benjamin Franklin
Ben harpe - music is the last true voice of the human spirit....
There comes a time when the mind takes a higher plane of knowledge but can never prove how it got there.
Albert Einstein
If a pig could give his mind to anything, he would not be a pig.
Charles Dickens
The highest endeavor of the mind, and the highest virtue, is to understand things by intuition.
Baruch Spinoza, The Ethics
The mind is like the stomach. It is not how much you put into it that counts, but how much it digests.
A. J. Nock
A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam that flashes across his mind from within, more than the lustre of the firmament of bards and sages. Yet he dismisses without notice his own thought, because it is his. In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts they come back to us with a sort of alienated majesty.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
In the realm of ideas it is better to let the mind sally forth, even if some precious preconceptions suffer a mauling.
Robert F. Goheen
Our greatest natural resource is the minds of our children.
Walt Disney, On the inside wall of the American Adventure in Epcot Cente
Anger is a wind which blows out the lamp of the mind.
Robert Ingersoll
If you keep your mind sufficiently open, people will throw a lot of rubbish into it.
William A. Orton
Justice is a certain rectitude of mind whereby a man does what he ought to do in circumstances confronting him.
Saint Thomas Aquinas
We must combine the toughness of the serpent and the softness of the dove, a tough mind and a tender heart.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
A mind once stretched by a new idea never regains its original dimension.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
If for a tranquil mind you seek, These things observe with care Of whom you speak, to whom you speak, And how, and when and where.
Anonymous
These are not books, lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on the shelves.
Gilbert Highet
Our minds are like our stomachs; they are whetted by the change of their food, and variety supplies both with fresh appetites.
Quintilian
Bad mind, bad heart.
Anacharsis Cloots
The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.
Terry Pratchett
Minds of moderate caliber ordinarily condemn everything which is beyond their range.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
For whereas the mind works in possibilities, the intuitions work in actualities, and what you intuitively desire, that is possible to you. Whereas what you mentally or consciously desire is nine times out of ten impossible; hitch your wagon to star, or you will just stay where you are.
D. H. Lawrence
Speech is the mirror of the mind.
Seneca
What this power is, I cannot say. All I know is that it exists... and it becomes available only when you are in that state of mind in which you know EXACTLY what you want... and are fully determined not to quit until you get it.
Alexander Graham Bell
The wisest mind has something yet to learn.
George Santayana
From social intercourse are derived some of the highest enjoyments of life; where there is a free interchange of sentiments the mind acquires new ideas, and by frequent exercise of its powers, the understanding gains fresh vigor.
Joseph Addison
The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.
Plutarch
He then learns that in going down into the secrets of his own mind he has descended into the secrets of all minds.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Volumes are now being written and spoken about the effect of the mind on the body - - I wish more was thought of the effect of the body on the mind.
Florence Nightingale
Comedy is the last refuge of the nonconformist mind.
Edward Albee